HARVARD RADCLIFFE DRAMATIC CLUB

THE BALCONY

SET DEISGNER

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Written by Jean GenetDirected by Matthew C. StoneSet design by Elizabeth Mak and Snoweria Zhang

This French play is set in a brothel in an unnamed city that is experiencing revolutionary uprising in its streets. The design captured the erotic energy as well as the political upheavals the characters face. Larger-than-life paintings of sensuous, nude women flanked the triptychlike doors of the brothel, while red velvet walls depicted the visitors’ innermost fantasies. During the revolution scenes, over 600 red bricks were raucously punched out of the structure, leaving a bare steel frame that underlined the destruction that was left behind.